New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-04-05

smoke and gas and which also would not be III
conflict with the provisions OF the Constitution
"Thc Commercial Advertiser" yesterday reports
Mr. Potter as denying that in his remarks he Ia
vorcd tie Metropolitan Transit Company. THE
TRIBUNE never asserted that he did. Mr. Potter
referred to letter which he sent to The IRIB-
TINE which was not printed. IL WAS not used De-
cause it contained Niolent attack upon another
moroscd system of rapid transit in the city, the
merits or clements Of which THE TRIBUNE dld
not care to confuse with the subject then under
discussion II The Commercial Advertiser de-
sres to print the letter II is doubt at Its dis
posal.
The cha,rc that the Brooklyn investigation was
"A partisan undertaking has been ehectualiy us
proved by the calling as witnesses OF Repuohcah
ex- District Attorney and his assistants ana i''
pdblican ex-SLcrir.
Tho question fer the new Rapid Transit Com
mission to decide appears to be whether OF ho1
there arc any streets in the city owned by VIC
public or which have not been pre-emptcd py
corporations. The Metropolitan Transit Company
claims Wcst-st, broadway and various avenues
The Arcade road claims the underground part OF
Broadway and various other streets. The New
York Elevated Railroad Company puts in claim
for tic streets running to the ferries, While thc
Cable Company modestly claims seventy miles Oh
the most available streets fjr rapid transit What
remains Lawson \. Fuller claims for the Manhat-
tan Company. and there are various other corpora
tions yet TO hear from. Perhaps it might be u
good thing for the citizens TO move out and let
the corr orations take p session. The city needs
more rapid transit fa,i ities but until roads are
| built UNDERGROUND il j. not likely TO get them
The SALON. Dr. Crosby says, is tiger 30 Is
the Democracy. They are twins of the same dam
Frcoucnters Of Prospect Park are making an ell
tirely Unsuitable outcry over the cutting and
hacking which has been going on in that pleasure
ground under the name Of Improvements. In
the last week Mr. William Hamilton Gibson has
found his favorte of the Park despoiled Of
is beauty and rendered barren and cherries. 1t
is true that the ruthless slaughter Of fine old trees
was stopped in to the emphatic protest that
went up early in the winter but the work of
trimming and thinning and clearing out has been
going on since under far from intelligent direction
Friends and lovers OF the lark assert that damage
has been done that two generations can hardly re
pair The duty Of the present Park Commission
crs is TO keep their hands or. park that is the
peoples dearest possession is no place for amateur
operations aud experiments
Even at the risl OF being thou lit cruel. we feel
II n duty ~ touch the balloon OF heated Democratic
hores with the rcmorscless steel Of fact. 1t is
one thing to run for Governor OF New-YorlI. II
Is another to run for President The last man who
tried the experiment. majority OF 1916, goo
DIV indie TO "a plurality of less than 1900.
The monument fund has a hard time keeping
pace with the death list.
If xyia n Ri yaur
in repeating the old English saying that heavy
snowsorm is always b. lie looked for the week be
fore Easter was confined 70 the house Sunday and
yesterday md did not venture TO look out of the
window. lie may show signs OF rapid GONZALES
cence later IN the week. especially if the absent
minded General Greedy happens TO confound the
latitude Of Washington with that OF upper Baiin's
Bay and TO forecast a sharp decline Of tcmpcra-
ture but for the present the veteran observer is
disabled and forced to get what comfort he can
out Of the dispatches from Maine where the Easter
snowstorm Is invariably a matter of course More
beautiful spring days than the last two have rarely
been known in this climate April this year Is
entitled 10 honorable prc-emnence in the calendar
for most suspicious and invigoIating opening.
An unusually long and disagreeable winter fol
lowed by clustering and frigid March has excited
a feeling of impatience for the coming OF vernal
warmth. Crocuses have been blooming in every
suburban dooyard since Friday, and lilacs and
magnolias fairly trembling with suppressed
life One OF those oldfashoned springs which ma
turc Engishmen say have been out OF date Tor
forty years would be appreciated at something like
full value this season.
The Chinese Government has ordered the officials |
of the Tung Lung Bank at Hong Kong to be be-
headed Generally speaking the Chinese banks
oIIcnp tod Cashier, p
luously believe that honesty is the best policy.
English Tories find It convenient to repudiatc |
the idea that such demonstrations as the recent |
meeting at Cooper Union over which Mr.. Dana
presided are expressions Of American public opln'
ion. Such meetings ave invariably classed in Eng
land with "other outbreaks OF Fenianism and
dynamite cons, iracy,- d few ambitious politicians
appearing on the platform ito catch the Irish
vote Tho st. James, Gazette cynicaly re-
marks that il would be very strange il in a city
with half million of Irish 5000 people could not
he got together to fill hall and back up "the
larnellite conspi acy.' "1hc real feelings IL goes
ON to say "of real Americans would be strongly
in favor of throwing threcfourths OF the persons
who COMPOSED the meeting into New-iork liarbor.
The mysterious process by which this English cav
iller has discovered the real feelings Of real Ameri
cans Is not disclosed.
The West and South are having their land
"booms but NcwYorl< is holding its own The
estimated cost Of new buildings projected for the
first quarter Of this year was over S22,OOO,OOO,
which is 81, 900, 900 more than for the same time
hast year.
Editor SINCE ~, who is good man and means
well TO his day and generation. has just af-
fordcd himself striking proof of the value
to American woI<men of protective laws.
lie built himself an elegant steam
yacht and he built it the Delaware,
where his money went into the needy pockets OF
American artisans and Iaid their grocery and